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Speaking with a classic-car enthusiast like Rusty Davis is both inspiring and infectious. It's no wonder that shortly after hiring him at Trees, the venue's owner, Clint Barlow, wound up buying himself a champagne colored '64 Lincoln and his wife a '...

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Lady Gaga loves The Rose Room at Station 4 so much she had to do an impromptu show there, and local photographer M. Riley caught it all.
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Black leather gets clingy in the heat and her Tammy Faye Baker tattoo is susceptible to sun damage, so you won't catch drag superstar Sharon Needles hostessing a brunch anytime soon. Dance routines involving parasols are also out of the question.
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I love this curvacious bench, which has its formal debutante reveal tonight on the corner of Pittman and Fort Worth Avenue at 7 p.m. It's a new piece of public art, meant to gussy up the exterior corner of Chicken Scratch's property, improving pedest...

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As far as artistic genres go, video art is still a young tyke. It didn't grow into a known and identified category until the late 1960s and early '70s, and from there it's exploded. Still young, wild terrain, it's evolving faster than most of us can ...